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  • How the technology behind Apple's Touch ID will likely change with 'iPhone 8'

    jonyojonyo
    I hope they can sort it out. Putting the on the back of the phone would be a non-starter for me. The way I use my phone, how I mount it in my car while driving and using it as my music source, the type of case protection I prefer, etc, mean putting the sensor on the back is just not going to work for me. Id that's what they decide to do, I'll just be keeping my iPhone 7 for the time being.
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  • Quick take video review: LG's UltraFine 4K Display

    jonyojonyo
    grizzly said:
    Why do they always gimp the "lower end" models? It's so frustrating. The 4K would be amazing if it had the feature set of the 5K. At a minimum, the 4K being limited to USB 2.0 speeds is inexcusable to me and is honestly what's stopping me from purchasing it. 
    That's weird. The 4K model only doing USB 2 speeds while the 5K model does USB 3.1 speeds on the USC-C ports seems really arbitrary and dumb. I have trouble believing that bumping the 4K model to the same internal USB port circuitry as the 5K model would add much to the cost of production, so it seems more like a purposeful gimping to steer you toward the more expensive 5K model. Not loving that.
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  • Official Apple images show new MacBook Pro with OLED 'Magic Toolbar,' Touch ID, new speaker design

    jonyojonyo
    Here's a possibly dumb question... where's the power button? Is it the touch ID that acts as power button too? If so, it's (necessarily) unmarked, so that might be confusing for noobs. Hmm...
    numenorean

  • X-ray of Apple's iPhone 7 Lightning headphone adapter finds mystery circuit, likely for DAC

    jonyojonyo
    wiggin said:

    While the exact purpose of the IC remains unknown, iFixit surmises that it's likely a digital-to-analog converter accompanied by an an amplifier and an analog-to-digital converter. Those are necessary to convert digital audio from the Lightning jack to analog sound that can be heard by human ears --?and also to convert input sources, such as sound through the EarPods microphone, into digital audio that the iPhone can use.

    Interestingly regarding an analog-to-digital converter, per this article Apple's adapter does not support the mic and controls on 3rd party headsets, rending them useless for phone calls, volume adjustments, etc. I think a lot of people are going to get their new iPhone 7s and be surprised their existing headsets don't work even with the adapter as this limitation is not spelled out in Apple's description of the adapter. Is the method 3rd party headsets use so different from what Apple's own headsets use that it couldn't have support both?

    http://www.macworld.com/article/3127211/iphone-ipad/7-solutions-for-the-iphone-7s-lack-of-headphone-jack.html

    If this is true, bad form on Apple's part to not be more clear about the limitation.


    I've used the Apple supplied lightning-3.5mm adapter with my Bose QC15 headphones and iPhone 7, and everything works fine with the Bose inline controls and mic, buttons for track back/forward, play/pause, calling up Siri, volume up/down, etc, it all works for me.
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  • 'iPhone 7' may use new 'fan-out' packaging tech to save internal space

    jonyojonyo
    Ok, but nowhere to you note what the heck "fan-out" packaging technology actually is?
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